Go to bed married, wake up divorced – Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had uttered the word “talaq,” or divorce, three times in his sleep, according to the report published in newspapers Monday. When local Islamic leaders got to hear, they said Aftab’s words constituted a divorce under an Islamic procedure known as “triple talaq.” The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split.

Western Digital Corporation Settlement Information (thanks to Leara) – Apparently WDC (Western Digital Corporation) was sued for false advertising. All hard drives sold today don’t exactly speak the whole truth when disclosing the drive capacity. As the class action states: Plaintiff alleges that in the sale and marketing of its hard disk drives, Defendant overstates the useable storage capacity by approximately 7%. According to Plaintiff, when attached to most personal computers, a hard disk drive advertised by Defendant as having “80GB” will only show an available capacity of “74.4GB.” Plaintiff alleges that one reason for this disparity is the use of two different measurements of a “GB.” Plaintiff alleges that computer operating systems compute 1 GB as 1,073,741,824 bytes (the “Binary Definition”), but Defendant and other hard disk drive manufacturers compute 1 GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes (the “Decimal Definition”). Plaintiff alleges that Defendant’s conduct constituted false advertising, unfair business practices, breach of contract, fraud, and violations of the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act. Anyway, the proposed settlement is 1) on all its future product packaging, it will display “1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.” and 2) class members shall be entitled to download, from the Website, software with substantially all of the following capabilities and features: data back up; data recovery, etc. The list of capabilities of this software is actually quite interesting and claims to be worth $30, not that much considering the features it possesses. But anyway, to qualify for the free software, all you need is a s/n from a WDC harddrive purchased between 2001 and 2006 and just register here.

The Major vs The OS-girls (from Leara) – NOT WORK SAFE and UTTERLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18! A hilarious yet sexy comic strip of the Major (from Ghost in the Shell) interrogating the different OS-tans and trying to find security holes.

Carpool Dummy Sells on eBay for $15,000 – A makeshift mannequin that failed to fool police monitoring the high-occupancy vehicle lane on a highway has fetched $15,000 in an auction on eBay, with proceeds going to charity, the buyer announced.

All-star cast set for “March of Penguins” spoof – Actor Samuel L. Jackson has signed on to narrate an upcoming spoof of the Oscar-winning documentary “March of the Penguins” with an all-star supporting voice cast, independent studio ThinkFilm said on Friday. “Farce of the Penguins,” mixing archival wildlife footage with an R-rated screenplay written and directed by comedian Bob Saget, is aimed for a late-summer theatrical release, ThinkFilm spokesman Alex Klenert said.